Change of Plans



Things don't always go according to plan. God is apparently choosing to teach me this principle by experience. The last few days issues have popped up unannounced, plans have changed direction in a moment, and circumstances have kept me from my regular schedule.

Usually I struggle with unforeseen troubles. I like order. I like predictability. I like to know what's going on and when.

However, living for God is never predictable. Serving Him means that we allow Him to cut into our schedules and interject His plan.

David was just fine chilling on the hillsides, watching his father's sheep and writing poetry. Yet, God popped in and had him anointed to be king of Israel.  The widow woman had planned to make  her last meal for herself and her son, but God sent over the prophet who asked her to give him the last that she had. Her obedience saved her life and the life of her son during a great famine.

All twelve disciples were out living their own lives when Jesus walked through and called them off of their previous posts. Their acceptance of His call transformed them and the rest of the world through them forever.

Would we even know who these people were if they had shunned the call of God? What would have happened to them if they had resisted the sudden change of plans that God produced?

When God shows up in your life and points you something that wasn't even on your schedule, don't balk at His request. If what He's showing you seems entirely out of your range of thinking, don't push it aside in fear.

Go after what He's showing you! Accept the call that He's placed on you! There is only be greatness and success in following His Word. Don't allow your limited thinking keep you out of your destined purpose in Him. Who knows? God's call could save your life, the life of someone else, or the destiny of this entire world.

Verse of the Day: ...I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8